

M<V. 



in a brief abstract. Mr. Bcntham prefers to use the terra glume 

 in rypaw- as well as in Grasses. While highly approving the 



systematic labors of Boeckeler. of Berlin, in flic former order he 



Bentham's own conclusions correspond wit!) those adopted in this 

 country as to the structure in 0//« r>i<-c-i . As to ( ' rrunn/int our 

 prepossessions were all in favor «»f Robert iimun's view, adopted 

 by Kunth and most agrostohwists, so that link arenth n \\ is 



isli 1'lora. We have not room here to exhibit the proposed view 



will simplify the study of Grasses, and bring the homology of the 

 ".Tami.Koii-. spik,-!e; into full accordance with ti;at of i \ //tl ,-,'„>, ,, and 

 other orders. The exposition iriven is certainlv we'll calculated 

 "to enforce a principle generally admitted,, but unfortunately too 

 much neglected b\ s[.eculative botanists, viz: that to be really 

 useful, descriptions' should, in clear and mteilii;-i'»h language, not 

 only enable the reader to identify the plant he has in hand, but 

 call his attention specially to those characters which may indicate 

 its r« il affinities, the h m'ologies ot its parts, and any other rela- 

 tions they may have. But for this purpose it is necessary that 

 the author should distinguish descriptions of plants from theoreti- 

 cal explanations, that he should, in terms the most capable of 

 strut definition, describe only what the observer may actually see, 

 not what it may be theoretically imagined he ought to see, reserv- 



7. The Yarn»i< < 'ontriraw-ts fry irlih-h < h;-l, UU ar, / 

 r^ft* : bv (iiuii:- Dyiiwiv 'Second edition. New York.— 

 The lirst ,.li t o . oft if- :■ t< !■■ -Gi.ii -Ao.-k. whici, appeared in I-r.J, 





IV. Astronomy. 



■P.p. ir Mn To 



t - Athens, on the 24th 



